ROSETTE and "Blizzard" are always free with Kindle Unlimited!

The Kindle Version

Awesome Indies Bookshas awarded Rosette first the
Awesome Indies Badge of Approval and then its more prestigious Seal of Excellence. Click the link to learn more.

The Illustrated Print Version

(Click to enlarge the cover)

Enjoy these images from among the twenty-four included in the illustrated print version of the book, available on
Amazon or, if you prefer, Moraine's Edge Books (autograph and gift options).

Order the illustrated paperback ROSETTE on Amazon and receive the Kindle version free - you could send the paperback to a friend and keep the Kindle version yourself.

Advance Praise for the Novel

Rosetteis a remarkable work, a tale well-spun. With every successive wave
of joy and sorrow, loss and longing, regret and resolve, broken hearts and healing hearts, readers will be swept into this powerful story and its intimately drawn cast of characters, as I was.
Cindy Marsch's writing style is often breathtakingly beautiful, but never purple (quite the writing feat). This is a provocative and delightful novel, not to be missed.

I sat enthralled as I read and couldn't put the novel down. It recalls the work of Willa Cather or Laura Ingalls Wilder
with the wonderful details of Rosette's day-to-day life in the structure of the journal. The style just suits the subject, with an impressive capturing of the 19th-century
voices. Cindy Marsch alludes to the deeper feelings and underlying tensions in a way that the reader knows what is happening without the characters actually saying it. Rosette's version
of her story is moving, her brother and mother add perspective, and her husband Otis reveals his control, his separateness.

Rosette is a wonderfully written, engaging book. I am amazed at Cindy Marsch's ability to voice each of these characters
believably, with light but appropriate use of metaphor, and I enjoyed living in their time. The story moves ahead at just the right moment, before we get overwhelmed with daily
life. Rosette's marriage really is interesting, and I cannot wait to read the follow-up research. Perhaps with the publishing of Pioneer Girl the time is right for this
novel.

The Journal and the Novel

When almost-spinster schoolteacher Rosette Cordelia Ramsdell met Otis Churchill on a Michigan farm in 1856, she thought he might be the one. Her
real-life journal tells what happened over the next two years. History tells what happened over the next six decades.

The pages of this website share some of Rosette's actual journal entries and the historical background. The literary historical novel explores the
deeper truth.

In the novel we meet Rosette in 1888 as she revises a crucial page of her 1850s journal, then we live the journal's entries in the voices of Rosette
and others around her. In careful detail, this novel by Cindy Rinaman Marsch traces how we both choose and suffer our destiny, how hopes that have come to naught can rise from
the wreckage.

"It is pleasant to be alone sometimes. We are free to act as we choose, having none but the Allseeing eye to spy our actions. I am now writing seated on a log, being on my way across the river."

Cindy Rinaman Marsch is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn
advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

This website uses cookies.
Cookies improve the user experience and help make this website better. By continuing to use the site, you agree to our cookie policy: they are used only to enhance your use of the site, not to exploit your information for any other purpose. More details here: Cookie Policy